Deadline for Proposals: April 28, 2016 at 5pm EDT
"Musical artifacts" is the theme of the AMS-PMSG session on the evening of Thursday, November 3, 2016 in Vancouver. The keynote speaker is Jasen Emmons, Curatorial Director of the Experience Music Project. In addition to Jasen's keynote, we are seeking 12-minute presentations on the relationship between popular music (broadly defined) and musical artifacts. Possible paper topics related to the theme might explore any of the following, as well as a number of other topics:

What counts as a musical artifact? How do we catalog and document musical artifacts on a professional level?
How does a particular musical artifact inform your research?
What are the complications for interpreting an artifact in an institution like a museum or (digital) archive?
How might we collaborate with specific publics to interpret an artifact?
What happens when we "dislocate" a musical artifact?
How can a musical artifact change performance or a musical experience?
How can we use musical artifacts for pedagogical purposes?

To submit, email a 250-word abstract to Eric Hung at msumeric@gmail.com by Thursday, April 28 at 5pm EDT. (If you do not receive acknowledge of receipt within 48 hours, please resend.) Decisions will be announced by May 10. If you have any questions, please email Eric Hung (msumeric@gmail.com).

Call for ApplicationsPopular Music Study Group of the American Musicological Society
Case Western Reserve University
2016 Junior Faculty Symposium

Application Deadline: January 31, 2016
In response to many members' call for more substantial career development programs, the Popular Music Study Group of the American Musicological Society, in collaboration with Center for Popular Music Studies at Case Western Reserve University, will host its 2nd biennial developmental symposium for early-career popular music scholars (widely defined) in June 2016. We welcome applications from junior and part-time faculty, recent PhD graduates, and ABD candidates. This symposium is designed to help early-career scholars:

A substantial part of the program will include work-shopping a journal article or book chapter with two senior scholars and other symposium participants. The remainder of the symposium is dedicated to breakout and one-on-one sessions on teaching, success at the workplaces, and job search strategies. There will also be ample social time for networking and the informal exchange of ideas.

To be considered for this symposium, applicants should submit the following to Eric Hung (msumeric@gmail.com), Chair of AMS-PMSG, no later than January 31, 2016:

A Current CV
A brief letter explaining how this symposium might benefit your career
A 10-15-page excerpt of a not-yet-published article or book chapter for the workshop

Applicants do not need to be members of the AMS Popular Music Study Group.

The symposium will begin around noon on Tuesday, June 14, and conclude on Thursday afternoon, June 16. The registration fee of $200 (we hope to lower this once we do some fund-raising) covers on-campus housing for Tuesday and Wednesday nights. Participants will be expected to cover their own meals and travel to the conference.

2015 AMS Popular Music Study Group Business Meeting and Pedagogy Roundtable

All AMS attendees are invited to attend the Popular Music Study Group's Business Meeting, which will occur on Saturday, November 14 at 12:15pm in the Wilkinson Room. At this meeting, the Study Group's officers will summarize events of the past year and discuss upcoming plans. There will also be an election for the Secretary-Treasurer position. All official PMSG members (membership includes a $10 fee) are eligible to vote. You can pay your dues online (http://www.ams-net.org/studygroups/pmsg/officers_and_membership.html).

Starting at 12:45pm, AMS-PMSG continues its commitment to furthering popular music pedagogy by holding a roundtable on Felicia Miyakawa and Richard Mook's "Avoiding the 'Culture Vulture' Paradigm: Constructing an Ethical Hip-Hop Curriculum." The panelists are Nicol Hammond (UCSC), Fernando Orejuela (Indiana University Bloomington), Philip Gentry (University of Delaware), Chris Wells (Arizona State University), and Shana Goldin-Perschbacher (Temple University). They work on very different aspects and genres of popular music, and will discuss how the "culture vulture" issue affects their research and teaching.

We hope to see you next Saturday!

Call for Nominations
Secretary-Treasurer: Popular Music Study Group of the American Musicological Society

The Popular Music Study Group of the American Musicological Society is accepting nominations to elect a Secretary-Treasurer for the organization. The officer must be a current member of the Popular Music Study Group at the time of his or her election and remain a member throughout the term. The Secretary-Treasurer shall keep minutes of the business meetings and administer balloting and elections. This office is also responsible for maintaining up-to-date membership rolls. The group's treasury is maintained and documented by the Secretary-Treasurer. Expenditures for annual meeting supplies are made in consultation with the Chair. All other expenditures are subject to members' discussion and approval by majority vote. Other duties may from time to time be delegated to the Secretary-Treasurer by the Chair, members, or ad hoc committees. The elected officer will serve a two-year term, beginning after the business meeting on Saturday, November 14, 2015 at the National Meeting of the AMS in Louisville, KY.

Nominations and self-nominations should be emailed to Eric Hung by October 31, 2015 at msumeric@gmail.com. The slate of candidates will be presented to the membership at the annual business meeting, when voting will take place.

2015 AMS Popular Music Study Group Panels and Business Meeting

Our panel, "Popular Music and Social Mobility," is taking place Thursday, November 12th from 8:00-11:00pm at the national AMS meeting in Louisville. The program is as follows:

We are also co-sponsoring a panel, "Getting 'Into the Groove': Teaching Students How to Listen to Temporality in Popular Music," with the Pedagogy Study Group Saturday, November 14th from 8:00-10:00pm. The panel features the following participants:

Chair: Colin Roust, University of Kansas
Respondant: Eric Hung, Westminster Choir College of Rider University
Robert Fink (University of California, Los Angeles)
Jason Hanley (Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum)
Jocelyn Neal (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
John Covach (Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester)
Mandy Smith (Case Western Reserve University)

The PMSG business meeting will take place on Saturday, November 14th from 12:15-1:45. We will report on the study group's activities, vote on the next term for the Secretary/Treasurer position, and collect dues. The second half of the meeting will include an activity relevant to popular music scholars, TBD. We welcome anyone interested in popular music topics to attend.

2014 AMS Popular Music Study Group Panel and Business Meeting

Our panel, "Pop Without Tech," is taking place Thursday, November 6th from 8:00-11:00pm at the national AMS/SMT meeting in Milwaukee. The program is as follows:

Chair: Mitchell Morris, University of California, Los Angeles
Nicholas Johnson (Butler University), "Reviving the American Musical Past: The Rejection of Technology in the Modern String Band"
Matthew Richardson (Northwestern University), "Vulnerable Voices and the Production of Affect in Japanese Idol Pop"
Mike D'Errico (University of California, Los Angeles), "Off the Grid: Self-Effacing Production in Juke and Footwork"
Mimi Haddon (McGill University), "Free-Reeding and the 'Plaintive Cry' of the Exotic: Understanding Post-Punk's Relationship to Dub through the Materiality of the Melodica"

The PMSG business meeting will take place on Saturday, November 8th from 12:15-1:45. We will report on the study group's activities, vote on the next term for the Chair position, and collect dues. The second half of the meeting will include a discussion about participating in, facilitating, and applying for conferences. We welcome anyone interested in popular music topics to attend.

Call for Nominations
Chair: Popular Music Study Group of the American Musicological Society

The Popular Music Study Group of the American Musicological Society is accepting nominations to elect a Chair for the organization. The officer must be a current member of the Popular Music Study Group at the time of his or her election and remain a member throughout the term. The Chair shall act as the executive office of the Popular Music Study Group, presiding over all meetings and having general management of the affairs of the group, including the power to enforce all orders and resolutions passed by its members. Additional duties may be delegated to the Chair by members or ad hoc committees. The elected officer will serve a two-year term, beginning after the business meeting on Saturday, November 8, 2014 at the National Meeting of the AMS in Milwaukee, WI.

Nominations and self-nominations should be emailed to Joanna Love by October 29, 2014 at jlove@richmond.edu. The slate of candidates created during this nomination period may be supplemented by nominations from the floor at the annual business meeting, when voting will take place.

The AMS Popular Music Study Group is pleased to announce its fourth annual paper session, to be held at the 2014 joint meeting of the American Musicological Society and the Society for Music Theory. We welcome all AMS and SMT members to submit paper proposals on topics concerning popular music and the lack of technology. Popular music scholars have long been concerned with technology, from the early influence of the carbon microphone and the recording studio to the impact of contemporary digital media. Yet the absence of technology can also play a crucial role in the construction and interpretation of musical meaning, as an aesthetic choice, a repudiation of convention, or a political statement.

We invite submissions on any subject related to popular music and the lack of technology. Possible themes to explore include:

We define "popular music" in the broadest possible sense, including, but not limited to pop, rock, R&B, hip-hop, EDM, country, minstrelsy, parlor songs, tin pan alley, and jazz, as well as non-Western popular musics. We thus seek papers from a wide variety of disciplinary, methodological, and personal perspectives. Accordingly, we will give special consideration to topics that have been traditionally underrepresented in contemporary scholarship.

The session format allots each speaker 30 minutes for presentation and 15 minutes for discussion. Please send proposals of no more than 300 words via Word document to Joanna Love (jlove@richmond.edu). Along with your name, affiliation, and email address, indicate any audio, visual, or other needs for the presentation.

Call for ApplicationsPMSG 2014 Junior Faculty Symposium
Location: University of Richmond; Richmond, VA
June 18-20, 2014Application Deadline: February 25, 2014
In response to calls by many members for more substantial career development programs, the Popular Music Study Group of the American Musicological Society will host a developmental symposium for early-career popular music scholars (widely defined) this June. We welcome applications from junior and part-time faculty, recent PhD graduates, and ABD candidates. This symposium is designed to help early-career scholars:

A substantial part of the program will include work-shopping a journal article or book chapter with two senior scholars and other symposium participants. The remainder of the symposium is dedicated to breakout and one-on-one sessions on teaching, success at the workplaces, and job search strategies. There will also be ample social time for networking and the informal exchange of ideas.
To be considered for this symposium, applicants should submit the following to Eric Hung (msumeric@gmail.com), Chair of AMS-PMSG, no later than February 25, 2014:

A Current CV
A brief letter explaining how this symposium might benefit your career
A 10-15-page excerpt of a not-yet-published article or book chapter for the workshop

Applicants do not need to be members of the AMS Popular Music Study Group.
The symposium will begin on Wednesday afternoon, June 18, and conclude on Friday afternoon, June 20. The registration fee of $200 covers on-campus housing for Wednesday and Thursday nights, and on-campus meals from dinner on Wednesday to lunch on Friday. Participants will be expected to cover their own travel to the conference.

Popular Music of the Rust Belt (Sterlings I)8PM Thursday, November 7, 8:00-11:00
Sponsored by the Popular Music Study Group
John Covach (University of Rochester), Chair

Christopher L. Collins (University at Buffalo, SUNY), "Ministry of Dissent: The Ecocriticism of Al Jourgensen"
Ian MacMillen (Oberlin College), "Affect, Becoming, and Whiteness in Professional South Slavic Tamburitza Bands, from Pittsburgh to Chicago"
Eric Hung (Westminster Choir College of Rider University), "The Sounds
of Asian American Trauma: Memorializing the Murder of Vincent Chin
in Detroit, 1982"

AMS Popular Music Study Group Business Meeting (Sterlings I)6:30PM Thursday, November 7

AMS Popular Music SG Business Meeting (Sheraton: Gallier)6PM Thursday, November 1

The Art of War: American Popular Music and Sociopolitical Conflict, 1860-1945 (Sheraton: Gallier)8PM Thursday, November 1
Sponsored by the Popular Music Study Group
Albin Zak (University at Albany, SUNY), Chair

The Ecomusicology Listening Room (Sheraton: Gallier)9PM Friday, November 2
Sponsored by the Ecocriticism Study Group, the Popular Music Study Group, and the SEM Sound Studies Interest Group

Popular Music and Protest (Sheraton: Bayside C)8:30 AM Saturday, November 3
Sponsored by the Popular Music Study Group, the Popular Music Section of SEM, and the SMT Popular Music IG
S. Alexander Reed (University of Florida), Chair

Griffin Woodworth (MakeMusic, Inc.), "Synthesizers as Social Protest in Early 1970's Funk"
Noriko Manabe (Princeton University), "Remixing the Revolution: A Typology of Intertextuality in Protest Songs, as Evidenced by Antinuclear Songs of Post-Fukushima Japan"
Holly Holmes (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), "'With a Voice Like a Gun': Brazilian Popular Music, Censorship, and Strategies of Resistance during the Military Dictatorship, 1964Ð85"
Barbara Milewski (Swarthmore College), "Peace, Love and . . . Concentration Camp Music? Aleksander Kulisiewicz and His Concerts of Prisoners' Songs at the West German Protest Song Festivals of the 1960s"

"If You're Going to San Francisco": Popular Music and the Bay Area (Grand Ballroom B)8PM Thursday, November 10
Sponsored by the Popular Music Study Group
Rob Walser (Case Western Reserve University), Chair